![]() ![]() The movie concludes with the Marines surrounding her, and though only one of them pulls the trigger, it is clear this is a gang killing. When they finally capture the shooter, they discover she is a Vietnamese teenager. Underneath the sexual objectification of Asian women lurks something much more threatening, as Kubrick made clear by the end of the movie, when the Marines are picked off by a sniper. Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, 1987, Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros. This intersection has been a driving force in western attitudes towards Asia and Asian women, who are routinely hypersexualised and objectified in popular culture. “Racism and sexism intersect,” says Nancy Wang Yuen, a sociology professor. Regardless of his denial – whether it is a lie or self-deception – it is obvious that he targeted these women because they were Asian. Instead, he claimed to be a sex addict bent on “removing temptation”. Though the Atlanta killings took place in Asian massage parlours, the shooter has said he did not target the women because of their race. The majority of the victims have been women. The Covid pandemic has given us a particular insight into this phenomenon: verbal and physical assaults against Asians have accelerated in the US over the last year, with 3,800 documented incidents involving spitting, knifings, beatings, acid attacks – and murder. ![]() ![]() The shootings take their place in a much longer story of anti-Asian violence. ![]() O n 16 March eight people were killed in Atlanta, Georgia, by a 21-year-old white man: all but one were women, and six were Asian. ![]()
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